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MesonPackage: depends_on pkgconfig (#46955)

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meson's `dependency` function often uses pkg-config to locate a dependency, and may even fall back to cmake. The former case is very common, and since packagers often forget to add the tiny pkgconfig package as a build dep, we do it for them.
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@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ class MesonPackage(spack.package_base.PackageBase):
variant("strip", default=False, description="Strip targets on install")
depends_on("meson", type="build")
depends_on("ninja", type="build")
# Meson uses pkg-config for dependency detection, and this dependency is
# often overlooked by packages that use meson as a build system.
depends_on("pkgconfig", type="build")
# Python detection in meson requires distutils to be importable, but distutils no longer
# exists in Python 3.12. In Spack, we can't use setuptools as distutils replacement,
# because the distutils-precedence.pth startup file that setuptools ships with is not run